Page storage cabinet



4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 7, 1931 ZeoIEZ i/ZZ i/ams INVENTOR ATTORNEY;

Aug. 1, 1933.

1.. K. WILLIAMS ,825

PAGE STORAGE CABINET Filed Jan. '7, 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 0, 4 QMATTORNEYS PAGE STORAGE CABINET Filed Jan. 7, 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR Patented Aug. 1, 1%33 rests;

Fi i-GE S'llQRAiGE CAEENE'E Leo K. Williams, @naaha, Nehr.

Application January 7, 1931. Serial No. M97321 1 Claim. (oi. 187-36) Newspaper page chases with the type therein are heavy and are awkward to handle, weighing approximately two hundred pounds each. The chases after being transferred on trucks from the composing room to the stereotype room are manually handled. When not required for 1X11"- mediate use the chases or forms are arran ed in racks and any changes in the forms require the removal of the chases from the onto the truck. As each chase is arranged on a single truck a large number of trucks are required and the arduous labor of the frequent lifting of the page forms or chases will be appreciated as well as the large number of trucks which are frequently required. A number of trucks necessarily occupy a large fiOOT space and occasion a lack of space in the ofiice which results in general congestion.

The object of this invention is the provision of a newspaper p'age form or chase storage cabinet for the holding of full size newspaper pages locked in their stereotype chases, in which the cabinet is provided with several compartments, for the reception of a large numberoi forms or page chases,together with means for auto1natically causing the raising or lowering or" the forms in the cabinet to hold the several forms or page chases in a line with the top of tru so that the said forms or chases may be readily drawn out of the cabinet and ontothe tr 3 or may be readily'slid oii 01 the truck into the desired compartment in the cabinet, and where by a materially less number of trucks are re vquired, more room space is achieved, confusion with respect to the traveling of the trucls and likewise with respect to the arrangement of the proper page forms on the trucks, obviate and the manual handling or raising or lowering the chases when moved from the cabinet to 'the truck or from the trucl to the cabinet is entirely overcome.

The invention will be fully and comprehensivelyunderstood from a consideration of the. following detailed description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings which form part of the application, with the understanding, however, that the iinproveme i is capable of extended application is confined to the exact showing or" the drawings nor to the precise construction described and, therefore, such changes and modifications may be made therefrom as do not affect the sp' of the invention nor exceed the scope thereoi as expressed in the appended claim.

of 'har "he drawings: "gire l is a front, elevation of the improvet.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Fi ure 3 similar sectional ,view approximately on the line 3--3 of Figure 1.

Figure i is a sectional view approximately on the line l--i of Figure 3. v

, 5 an view looking toward the lower portion the device.

e 6 greatly enlarged sectional view "lately on the line 6-6 of Figure 1. e l a diagrammatic View of the electric g and switches. can a suitable metal base 1 there arises the corner members 2 of the frame of the improvement. The corners are in the nature of angle eieinents and connected at their upper portions with a top member 3 which may be in the nature of a sheet or which may be constructed of irons. ifihe corner posts, slightly above the base are connected together by webs or plates 4. case has a corner extension which indicated for distinction by the numeral 5 and on th extension there rests an elecmotor 6 oi the reversible type. The outer end of the shaft of tr e motor has preferreon a fiy wheel, and the inner end '11 'i has a flexible coupling or connection 8 with a driven shaft 9. The driven shaft comprises two parts arranged in suitable bearand betw n said parts of the shaft there are redu which are mounted in a suitable c As the reducing gears are drawings. The shaft 9 ends a spur gear 11 that .4. gear 12 fixed on a shaft hearings which are fixedly supsee of the frame. What I will haft 13 is squared in by the numeral 15,

has fixed on one is in mesh with i 13 that is jounaled term the 0 cross turned. The tals i l have depressions that enter from the L flat ends thereof, the outer depression havir anged therein Hyatt radial hearings is for the lower and non-threaded portions 17 of vei ica-liy .nged screws 18. The lower-and red .ced ends of the non-threaded t e screws have their shoulders tions 1'? 'n thrust bearings 19. Fixed engaged by provided in on each of the non-threaded portions of the screws 18 there is a mitre gear 20, and the outer face of this mitre or bevel gear rests on a bronze washer 21 supported on the top of each of the pedestals 14. The shaft 13 has its ends journaled on Hyatt radial bearings 22 arranged in transverse round openings in the pedestals 14. Suitable discs or collars 23 hold the bearings in their cages and in the pockets in the pedestals therefor. Fixed on the shaft 13 are mitre or bevel gears 26 which are in mesh with the mitre or bevel gears 20.

The upper ends of the screws 18 are reduced and non-threaded and are engaged by Hyatt roller bearings 27 arranged in raceways provided by sockets 28 that are fixedly secured to the top 3 of the frame. a

The inner and transverse flanges of the angle elements providing the corners 2 of the frame have welded or otherwise secured thereon vertically disposed guide plates 29 which are contacted by the angle corner members 30 of the milled shelves 31 of the improvement. The open ends of the shelves 31 are arranged at the front of the cabinet, and the side members of the said shelves have bolted or otherwise fixed thereon nuts 32 through which the screws 18 pass, and which nuts, of course, engage with the threads of the screws. The shelves 31 are equidistantly spaced, and each shelf is of a size to receive therein a tray 33 which is preferably in the nature of a flat but strong plate and which has its outer edge provided witha depending bent portion 34. One of the outer cornerposts has a plurality of equidistantly spaced preferably rectangular openings 35 therethrough, the said openings having their lower edges arranged in a plane withthe shelves 33 and inward of the openings the said corner post has welded or otherwise secured thereon a vertically disposed bar 36 provided with openings 3'7, which communicate with the openings 35 and are of the same shape as that of said openings 35. The bar 36, in a line with the openings 37, is bored transversely, the outer walls of the bore, or those communicating with the openings 37, having their walls rounded toward each other to provide seats for metal balls 38 which are forced against their seats by springs 39, the said springs being retained in the bores of the bars 36 by headless threaded plugs 40, the outer faces of the plugs being kerfed.

The said corner post has fixed on its outer face a strip of insulating material which is indicated by the numeral 41 (Figure 6). The strip has fixed thereon a contact element 42 which is normally engaged in a contact of a switch arm 43. The switch arm or contact maker 43 is pivotally secured, as at 44, to a bracket on the insulator strip 41, and the arm 43 is influenced to engage with the contact 42 through the medium of a coil spring 44 which is fixed to the arm and is fixed to the strip. The inner end of the arm 43, or the end thereof adjacent to the openings 35 has journaled thereon a roller or may have fixed thereto a cam head 45.

The numeral 46 designates a key member that has a reduced shank 47 provided on one :of its edges with a rounded depression 48 and which shank 47 is of a size to be received through the alining openings 35 and 3'7. The widened outer portion of the key 46 has on its end a lateral extension 49 which is in the path of conj tact with the head 45 on the arm 43. It will be apparent that when the angle end or finger 49 of the key engages with the roller or cam head 45 of the arm 43, the said arm will be swung on its pivot 44 to bring the same away from the contact 42, and consequently break the circuit between the contact elements.

Reference is now to be had to Figure 7 of the drawings which illustrates the diagram of the electric circuit. It will be noted that the wire leading from the contact on the arm 43 is grounded and that the wire leading from the contact 42 is provided with two branches, each of which is connected to metal plates in the nature of contacts 50 and 51, respectively. Opposite the contacts 50 and 51 there are other contact plates 50 and 51, each of which having a wire leading therefrom to a holding coil 52 and 53, respectively. The coils, when energized attract centrally pivoted metal latch members 54 and 54, respectively, the hooked ends of the said latches being influenced by springs 55, respectively, out of contact with a centrally pivoted plate 56 of insulating material. The plate has its outer face, adjacent to its ends, provided with knobs 57 and 58, respectively, and the plate is normally held in one position through the medium of a centrally fixed arched spring 59 whose arms contact with the inner face of the said plate, and which spring is disposed opposite the pivotal support 59' for the plate. The insulator plate carries on its inner face metal contacts 60 and 60, as well as contacts 61 and 61', the respective pairs of contacts being disposed opposite the pairs of contacts 50 and 5151, and a pressure on either of the buttons 57 or 58 will swing the plate to bring its contact strip or fingers into engagement with either of the pairs of contacts 5050 or 5151' and when the switch element 56 is swung to either of such positions the same will be engaged by one of .the holding dogs 54 or 54. The holding coils 52 and 53 are wired to the armature of the motor, the return wires from the armature being connected by branches to the contact strip 6060, while the contact element 6l-6l is wired to the coil 62 for the motor and. the return wire from the coil is grounded.

The key 46 is inserted in the opening to stop the elevator comprising the shelves 31 so that anyone ofthe shelves will be moved to a position in line with the top of a truck T so that the page form of chase C can be moved off of the truck onto the desired shelf or removed from the shelf onto the truck. If the elevator is to rise in the frame pressure is exerted against the knob or button 57 which will bring the contact 60-60 against the contacts 50-51, causing the current to flow from the motor through the contact 60' to the contacts 42 and 43. This energizes the holding coil 52, so that the same will attract the latch 54 to bring the hooked end thereof into engagement with the plate 56, thus holding the contacts 6060' in engagement with the contacts 5050'. When the elevator rises to bring the shelf in a line with the top of the truck T the finger 49 on the key 46 will be brought into engagement with the head 45 of the switch member 43, swinging the said switch member against the tension of its spring 44 away from the contact 42, thereby breaking the circuit'and holding the elevator at a proper position with respect to the top of the truck. The elevator is, of course, raised by the turning of the screws through the nuts 32. This, of course, deenergizes the holding coil 52 and permits of the spring returning the latch 54 to initial position. When theelevator is to be lowered the second knob or push button 58 is pressed which brings the contacts 61-61 into engagement with the contacts 5151 so that current will flow to the circuit maker'as Well as energize the holding coil 53 to cause the latch 54' to lock the insulated plates 56 in a position to hold the contact 6161 in engagement with the contacts 51-51, and when the finger 49 of the key 46 again engages the head 45 to break the circuit the elevator will be lowered and the desired shelf thereon arranged in a line with the top of the truck T. This permits of the spring 51- returning the insulated plate 56 to initial position.

It is believed the construction, operation and advantages of my invention will be understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art to which such invention relates without further detailed description.

The bent members 34 will be stamped say from 1 to 14 consecutively so that the slides 13 will be consecutively numbered. The device opposite the openings 35 will be likewise numbered. If the page wanted should be on slide 12 then the key plug 49 would be inserted in contact opening marked 12, button switch pressed for raising or lowering the elevator as the case may be and the elevator would stop at the point to fluenced catches partly movable into the openings in the bar, a normally closed electric circuit breaker on one side of the frame and electrically connected in the circuit and includes a fixed contact and a spring influenced pivotally supported contact, a revoluble head on the pivoted contact, a key having a stem insertible through any of the registering openings in the elevator and bar and designed to be engaged by the catch that alines with such openings, said key having an outer angle end to engage with the head of the pivoted contact for moving the same away from the fixed contact when the elevator is raised or lowered, a hand operated switch electrically connected in the circuit and to the motor to cause the reverse turning of the motor and to operate the elevator in two vertical directions.

LEO K. WILLIAMS. 

